From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Mar 23 16:59:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA28597 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:59:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA28589 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:59:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #3) id 0yHHh0-0004WL-00; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:35:50 -0800 Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:35:49 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Omar Thameen cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT and ECC memory In-Reply-To: <19980323193054.62953@clifford.inch.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Omar Thameen wrote: > Is there anything special about the DPT ECC memory that they sell, > apart from it being ECC? DPT lists the price at over $1100 for 16M, > but my vendor is telling me that he sells 32M of 70 pin ECC memory for > around $70. Why the disparity? The DPT ECC memory is custom made, and has more ECC bits than normal parity memory. Its main selling point, is that you can reformat your hard drives with a larger sector size, and run ECC end-to-end. This is probably excessive data security for most. BTW, you should always put regular parity memory into a DPT controler. This is definitely not excessive. Make sure your system memory is parity too. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message